Beauchamp Day

{{short description|Irish sprinter}}

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Beauchamp Day was an Irish sprinter who was Ireland's championship runner in the early 1910s.{{cite web|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/postle-arthur-benjamin-8083|title=Postle, Arthur Benjamin (1881–1965)|publisher=Australian Dictionary of National Biography|year=1988| accessdate=16 February 2014|author=Ross, J. R.}}{{cite news|title=Australia's Champion Arthur Postle|work=Mirror|date=19 April 1930|location=Perth|page=7}}{{cite web|url=http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/wa-goldfields/life-on-fields/recreation|title=Recreation-Sprinting|publisher=Government of Western Australia|accessdate=19 February 2014}} He regularly competed at the Australian gold fields of Kalgoorlie; his 1906 defeat there at the hands of Arthur Postle being an event of some notoriety. On 1 April 1907 he recorded a then-world record time for the 400 metre sprint.